Boxing fight nights now high-security events

Katie Taylor, the boxer, with her manager Brian PetersDONALL FARMER/INPHO

One of Katie Taylor’s management team alluded to security concerns around boxing in Ireland as a reason for the world champion not fighting in the country.

An undoubtedly profitable homecoming fight has been promised but has yet to materialise, in part because the sport’s association with the Kinahan crime family has made boxing nights high-security events.

“We had talks recently with the powers that be and they advised us that the climate is not conducive to having a fight night,” Brian Peters, Taylor’s Irish manager, told The Irish Independent. “It’s very tricky . . . We still hope to fight here. But if you want to run a show, there are the sanctioning bodies, the gardaí, there are a whole load of boxes you have to tick.”…

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